Halau Hula Kamamolikolehua Officially Joins Our 'Ohana

We are so fortunate to have gained the support of Halau Hula Kamamolikolehua, under the tutelage of Kumu Pohai Souza, at the Malaola. The Halau is connected to Halau 'o Kaululaua'e by lineage and has committed to quarterly volunteer workdays in 2017. Today was the first!

We had a tremendous showing of dancers of all ages and parents/spouses, about 50 in total! Their help could not have come at a better time because of the overgrowth of weeds and pohinahina due to all the rain we've been experiencing. They sure worked hard!

We thank everyone for their kokua, which resulted in a great accomplishment! Special thanks to Darlene Loo-McDowell and her husband for hauling the greens for recycling.

Happy New Year! First Workday of 2017

Happy New Year to all our viewers! We hope that you had a wonderful 2016 Christmas and a great celebration into the new year!

We got through the first workday of 2017 fine, thanks to comfortable, cool weather. We put in a handful of plants, and hopefully we will see them grow vigorously in the coming months! It was a great first workday of the new year.

One of the few plants we outplanted in the new year. 'Uki'uki.

Small Naupaka.

The ti leaf patches needed some tidying!

Laying Out A Path

A big thanks to the clouds for giving us an overcast day! However, the recent showers from a few days ago have made the weeds grow wild. Weeding as usual, but today marks the beginning of small walk path for the garden. It's great to see progress again!

Continuous trips to putting the mulch in the wheelbarrow.

Removing the weeds from the walk path.

The walk path covered in wet and dark brown mulch. It's a start!

Preparing for the addition of two wiliwili trees

Our sincerest apologies to our readers who are keeping up with the Malaola blog. There have been recent changes in the past few months on who will continue Malaola's growth. My name is Jamison Domingsil, and through the guidance of my colleague, Sayo, as well as reading and listening about the steady progress of Malaola, it is a privilege to take part of this special place and to carry out the visions of the garden that have been set in the past.

October Rains shower the garden inducing growth of unwanted weeds.

A special thanks to the volunteer crew of Monsanto for continually keeping the garden well-kempt.

One of the two wiliwili trees planted in November. They continue to look great in the garden to this day!